61. Gazelle Twin - Unflesh (2014)
Nominated by bonnielaurel (#873)
Genre : Art Pop, Electronic, Post-Industrial Electro-Industrial, Glitch Pop, Electropop, EBM, Darkwave (# 881 in the RYM Art Pop chart)
Descriptors : scary, dark, surreal, mysterious, mechanical, cryptic, female vocals, disturbing, dissonant, ominous
Length : 12 tracks - 38 min 15s
AM ranking : #bubbling
Artist Ranking : #unranked
RYM ranking : #812 for 2014 #unranked overall (700 ratings @ 3.27/ 5.0)
Metascore : 83
21k unique listeners and 391.7k scrobbles on last.fm
Choice cuts : Belly of the Beast / Anti Body / Unflesh
and calling out bonnielaurel for her views on this album
Biography from Last.fm
As Gazelle Twin, producer, composer, and visual artist Elizabeth Bernholz explores 21st century dystopia with uncompromising electronic music and striking imagery. Her 2011 debut album, The Entire City, introduced her prowess as a producer as she transformed layers of murky loops and her classically trained vocals into a haunted metropolis of sounds and memories. Her skills were just as apparent on 2014's visceral Unflesh, which emphasized the industrial leanings of her music as well as the importance of costumes in her visual presentation (to personify the discomfort in the music, she wore her old school gym clothes on the album cover). She linked sound and vision even more closely on 2018's Pastoral, an unflinching depiction of the intolerance lurking within English culture that blended the traditional (English folk music and garb) with the contemporary (assaultive electronics and sneakers). The innate theatricality of Gazelle Twin's work made Bernholz a natural for productions like her 2016 stage adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel Kingdom Come and for score and soundtrack work like 2020's Welcome to the Blumhouse: Nocturne and the following year's The Power. Though Gazelle Twin's personas and concepts change continually, Bernholz's commitment to unnerving her listeners and reframing their perspectives is a constant of her work.
A fan's review
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Gazelle Twin is a fascinating electronic artist, and I feel bad that only now have I caught on to her bizarre music and aesthetic. Musically, it floats somewhere within the industrial-electro / post-dubstep / synth-pop / trip-hop Venn diagram, slipping a Portion Control beat into Pearson Sound’s production values to create some blackened Björk remix. Sounds cool, right? But “Gazelle Twin” the person takes on this totally unique persona that mixes chav streetwear with Slipknot scare tactics (Google a photo!), resulting in the perfect gateway drug for a Marilyn Manson fan who is trying to get into Throbbing Gristle. The few intelligible lyrics seem to deal with dark familial issues, and the tracks that don’t have me dancing have me looking over my shoulder, almost positive I’m about to be kidnapped or hatcheted. All this and “Anti Body” is one of the sickest dance cuts I’ve heard this year… and the label is Canadian! You just can’t make this stuff up.
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